Bellinghausen was born in Mexico City in 1953. He obtained his MD from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has served as collaborator on the Mexican weekly magazines En Solidaridad and Mundo Médico and as an editor for Ojarasca. He is an editorialist and a correspondent who covers the state of Chiapas and the activities of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) for La Jornada.[1] Along with Alberto Cortés, he wrote the script for the movie Ciudad de ciegos ("City of the Blind").